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Monday, June 16, 2014

Father's Day: From Pancakes to Ice Cream

If there's one thing my dad and I can agree on, it's pancakes.

He ordered chocolate-chip pancakes for Father's Day brunch, so to shake things up a bit I decided to make a double recipe of the puffy pillow pancakes from Isa Does It (p. 253) instead of my favorite pancakes from Vegan with a Vengeance.

They were really yummy and certainly fluffier than my usual, but no where near "just under an inch thick" as suggested in the recipe and corresponding picture.

To make things a bit more exciting, I made a raspberry sauce that was adapted from the blueberry sauce recipe in VWAV (p. 39).

Quality control:

My sauce receptacle was a bit too small for the half batch I'd made, so VM- lover of all things raspberry, got the windfall of what was left in the saucepan once the creamer was filled to capacity.

I'm not a huge raspberry fan, but the sauce was really good; I did wind up adding a little to my river of maple syrup.

18 comments:

Those pancakes look good!, even if they're a little deflated. Nina's dad wanted oatmeal cookies for breakfast, but we had a giant bowl of cherries sitting around so I made black forest smoothies to go with them.

Finally tried Coconut Bliss ice cream for the first time last week - chocolate hazelnut fudge. Good stuff. Your description of the salted caramel & chocolate gives me a reason to polish off the first pint and make room in the freezer for other flavors.

Good thing they only go on sale every once in a while (that's why I splurged for two flavors this time!), but really: there should be a better description. "Salted caramel & chocolate" could have meant 2 flavors ice cream swirled for all I knew; these details are important when making a dessert decision! Hope your day was great too!

I love the B in the pancakes! Nice job. Beautiful sauce too.The coconut ice creams both sound awesome. I rarely buy ice cream so I don't have that particular problem with descriptions, but it's hard to have any problem with ice cream.

Good point, but they definitely do themselves an injustice. Some descriptions are obvious, but some could use a little more information. I like to know what I'm getting! Glad you had such a nice celebration as well.

The pancakes really do look soft and yummy — just the way pancakes should look! And I like the way you kept the breakfast and dinner color coordinated. I have a question about the charming 89. Does she have her own closet? :D (You should offer your writing services to coconut bliss. Your description of the salted caramel and chocolate ice cream made me want some.)

Why haven't I tried that pancake recipe yet?! Everyone raves about it and I love pancakes! I wish we had such great store-bought ice cream flavours here, almost every brand just does chocolate, vanilla and strawberry. So boring!

What do you mean 'even though we shouldn't have'? Yes, yes you should. There is never a time when ice cream is bad, except maybe if you're in the Arctic. It's probably still good then. Salted caramel for me, all the way.

They look great! My favourite pancakes are from Isa's Vegan Brunch (the 'perfect pancakes' but I also like the gluten free ones), I think I tried the Isa Does It ones but they didn't turn out like I'd hoped because I did something dumb. Salted caramel coconut icecream is awesome, I haven't tried Coconut Bliss (don't think it's available in Australia) but we have Zebra Dream which is delicious.